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| | Close Up Foundation Civics Education Northern Ireland |
 | | Northern Ireland Office (Office of the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland). | | | The whole of Ireland was governed by the British from the seventeenth to the early twentieth century, during which time the British encouraged Protestant settlement in the northeastern corner of the predominantly Catholic country. | | | The twenty-six counties of Ireland won independence from Britain in 1922, and later became a Republic; the North remained part of the United Kingdom. |
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| | Catholic World News : Northern Ireland Assembly Opposes Extension Of Abortion Act |
| | Abortion law in Northern Ireland is governed by the 1861 Offenses Against the Person Act, a 1939 court case, and the 1945 Criminal Justice (Northern Ireland) Act. | | | He added, "It is estimated that, in total, 45,000 women from Northern Ireland have had abortions in Britain since the passing of the 1967 Abortion Act. | | | BELFAST (CWNews.com) - Members of the Northern Ireland Assembly have voted by an overwhelming majority to oppose the extension of Britain's 1967 Abortion Act to Northern Ireland. |
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| | CAIN: Issues: Politics: Government in Northern Ireland |
| | The Northern Ireland Assembly elected an Executive Committee which is the equivalent of the British Cabinet. | | | Certain powers were not devolved to the new government and the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland held responsibility for these matters. | | | The British-Irish Council is made up of representatives of: the British government, the Irish government, the Northern Ireland Assembly, the Welsh Assembly, the Scottish Parliament, and the institutions of the Isle of Man and the Channel Islands. |
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| | Sinn Fein is a republican party devoted to establishing a united Ireland. | | | In later years, when direct rule was imposed from London, successive secretaries of state for Northern Ireland had to endure his wrath. | | | And although the party won five seats in the Assembly, one held by Mr McCartney, his four colleagues have left to set up a new party which they hope to call the Northern Ireland Unionist Party. |
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http://www.preachtoreach.com/northern_ireland_facts_and_figur.htm
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| | Parlianet - Northern Ireland Assembly |
| | A referendum was held on 22nd May 1998 and produced a majority in favour of the Belfast agreement, the New Northern Ireland Assembly was constituted under the Northern Ireland (Elections) Act 1998. | | | The executive powers of the Assembly are discharged by a First Minister and Deputy First Minister supported by 10 ministers chosen by the d&. | | | Following negotiations aimed at lifting the suspension, fresh elections to the assembly were held on 26th November 2003. |
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http://www.parlianet.com/addservices/niassembly.asp
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| | About My Vote - Northern Ireland Assembly |
| | The Secretary of State for Northern Ireland (a UK Government Minister) assumed responsibility for the powers of the Assembly. | | | The Assembly is led by the Executive which is made up of the First Minister, Deputy First Minister and the Executive Committee of Ministers. | | | When you vote in an election for the Northern Ireland Assembly you will be given a ballot paper listing the candidates competing for the six seats in your constituency. |
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http://www.aboutmyvote.co.uk/DemoInst/NIAss.cfm
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| | Northern Ireland Assembly election 2003 |
| | In November 2003, elections were held for Northern Ireland’s devolved assembly at Stormont. | | | Northern Ireland has a unique history in British politics. | | | The Northern Ireland Assembly had been suspended by Northern Ireland Minister Paul Murphy following allegations that Sinn Fein had bugged offices at Stormont. |
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| | CNN Specials - Northern Ireland |
| | The Government of Ireland Act of 1920 recognised this de facto religious division by splitting the country into two separate political units, a predominantly Catholic south and a predominantly Protestant north. | | | Most of Northern Ireland's minority Catholic population, mistrustful of the Protestant majority, would prefer to belong to a single, united Ireland. | | | As British Prime Minister Tony Blair said in a 1999 speech to the House of Commons: "I accept that this is often and has to be an imperfect process and an imperfect peace, but it is better than no process and no peace at all." |
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| | The Northern Irish Conflict: A Chronology |
| | On Aug. 11, Britain's secretary of state for Northern Ireland, John Reid, suspended the power-sharing government for one day, a move that allowed Protestant and Catholic politicians six more weeks to negotiate before British authorities would be required to call for new elections to the assembly. | | | Following a period of guerrilla warfare between the nationalist Irish Republican Army (IRA) and British forces, a treaty was signed in 1921 creating the Irish Free State from 23 southern counties and 3 counties in Ulster. | | | In June 1998, voters chose the 108 members of the Northern Ireland Assembly, the locally elected government. |
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| | Guardian Hume to quit Northern Ireland assembly |
| | The SDLP leader, John Hume, is to resign his Northern Ireland assembly seat, the party confirmed today. | | | A campaigner for reconciliation in sectarian Northern Ireland, Mr Hume has staked his reputation on the peace process, winning respect from republicans and loyalists alike. | | | He will be sorely missed on the assembly benches but will still be at our meetings in Stormont as party leader and will be remaining as an MP and MEP," the West Belfast assemblyman said. |
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| | Northern Ireland Assembly rejects abortion |
| | Seventy-nine of the 108 assembly members originally signed the petition in support of the motion by Mr Wells (Democratic Unionist) which stated: "That this House defends the right to life of the unborn child and opposes any change in the law governing abortion in Northern Ireland." | | | Authority to legislate on abortion has not been delegated from London to the assembly. | | | Proponents of the 1967 Abortion Act had spoken in minimalist terms about the circumstances in which abortion would permitted. |
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| | Assembly Elections 2003 |
| | Northern Ireland Office meetings: The Northern Secretary, Mr Paul Murphy, said the Belfast Agreement will remain "fundamentally unchanged" because the majority of the electorate supported it. | | | Sinn Féin president, Mr Gerry Adams, and the DUP's Mr Nigel Dodds, during a radio interview at the Northern Ireland Assembly election count in the King's Hall, Belfast yesterday. | | | Mr Jeffrey Donaldson will mount another challenge against Ulster Unionist leader Mr David Trimble at Stormont today as the British and Irish governments begin the long, difficult process of rescuing the stricken Northern Ireland political process. |
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| | CNN.com - Unionist demands unification vote - March 9, 2002 |
| | Trimble was also responding to recent claims by Republican leaders that a united Ireland was inevitable in the medium term given increases in the population of Northern Ireland's Roman Catholic minority. | | | He said he was confident the poll would result in Northern Ireland remaining part of the United Kingdom and force Republicans to end calls for separation. | | | Sinn Fein's party national chairman Mitchel McLaughlin also claimed that a united Ireland was achievable for Nationalists and for Republicans within the next two decades. |
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| | The Northern Ireland Assembly |
| | She replaced party leader John Hume, who resigned as an Assembly Member on 4 December 2000 to concentrate on his work at the UK Parliament at Westminister and in the European Parliament. | | | The Assembly did not meet during this time, and Northern Ireland continued to be run from London. | | | Despite being a distinct state within the United Kingdom since 1921, Northern Ireland has been governed directly from Londom for 30 years. |
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| | Northern Ireland Assembly - Politics.ie |
| | Each party has a designated nominating officer and the d'Hondt procedure is used for the appointment of Ministers. | | | The First Minister and Deputy First Minister head the Executive Committee of Ministers and acting jointly, determine the total number of Ministers in the Executive. | | | Membership comprises representatives of the British and Irish Governments, devolved institutions in Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales together with representatives of the Isle of Man and the Channel Islands. |
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| | Britain stays Northern Ireland Assembly / Coalition threatened by IRA missteps |
| | Britain and Ireland are the co-sponsors of the Northern Ireland peace agreement, and Prime Ministers Tony Blair and Bertie Ahern issued a joint statement Monday saying that ending paramilitary activity had become the defining issue. | | | The legislature had been threatened with collapse by the decision of Protestant unionist politicians to resign their offices on Tuesday and to end their cooperation with their Catholic republican counterparts because of evidence that the Irish Republican Army was still engaged in military activity while its political party, Sinn Fein, was taking part in government. | | | Unionists and republicans blamed each other Monday for the latest crisis in the effort to bring settled politics to the conflicted province, but British and U.S. officials left it clear in separate conversations that they faulted Sinn Fein and its inability to curb recent IRA provocations. |
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| | Power devolved to Northern Ireland Assembly |
| | Irish Taoiseach (Prime Minister) Bertie Ahern announced that his cabinet had given effect to the changes to Articles 2 and 3 of the constitution. | | | This means that whatever their private views, Ministers must remain loyal to cabinet decisions once they are taken. | | | He had been serving a 24-year sentence since 1993, after being caught in possession of an under-car bomb in Belfast City Centre. |
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| | Northern Ireland Assembly Elections 1998 |
| | 108 members were elected to the new Assembly; each of the existing 18 parliamentary constituencies in Northern Ireland elected 6 members of the new body by the Single Transferable Vote. | | | The three members elected as independent Unionists formed a new United Unionist Assembly Party in September 1998, and four of the five UKUP Assembly members formed a new Northern Ireland Unionist Party in January 1999. | | | On 15 July 1999, Séamus Mallon resigned as Deputy First Minister, but his resignation was rescinded on 29 November by a vote of the Assembly and the Ministers and committee posts were appointed. |
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| | BMA - Northern Ireland Assembly update |
| | The election of 108 Members of the Legislative Assembly to the Northern Ireland Assembly took place on Wednesday, 26th November 2003. | | | D'Hondt was triggered on 29 November 1999, in which the governing structures for Northern Ireland were established. | | | Since suspension from midnight on Monday 14th October 2002, responsibility for Northern Ireland Executive decisions, including the office of the First Minister and Deputy First Minister and the ten Executive Departments, has rested with ‘Direct Rule&; Ministers. |
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| | Guardian Northern Ireland assembly suspended |
| | The resignation of the Ulster Unionist leader, David Trimble, as first minister of the assembly on July 1 left the government with six weeks to resolve a complex political crisis. | | | The prime minister, Tony Blair, on holiday in Mexico, said in a statement: "We are at a very important stage of the Northern Ireland peace process. | | | He also defended his decision to suspend the region's devolved government temporarily rather than calling for fresh elections. |
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| | NPR : NORTHERN IRELAND ASSEMBLY |
| | All Things Considered, July 4, 1998 ·; Danny talks with two members of Northern Ireland's new Assembly, Alex Maskey of Sinn Fein, and Billy Hutchinson of the Progressive Unionist Party, about the inaugural session of the assembly and what it's like for past antagonists to work together for an Irish future. |
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| | USIS Washington File: TRANSCRIPT: CLINTON REMARKS TO NORTHERN IRELAND ASSEMBLY SEPT. 3 |
| | I am delighted that there are both Republican and Democratic members with me today, as well as Jim Lyons, my special advisor for economic initiatives in Northern Ireland, and Senator Mitchell, whom you welcomed so warmly and justly a few moments ago. | | | He made the first by a President of the United States almost three years ago, in November 1995. | | | It has been one of the great privileges of my presidency to work with the peacemakers, Protestant and Catholic leaders here in the North -- Prime Minister Blair and Prime Minister Ahern. |
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| | Northern Ireland assembly resumes |
| | Twenty-eight are held by the Ulster Unionists, the largest Protestant party, 24 by the Catholic Social Democratic and Labour Party, and 18 by Sinn Fein. | | | The assembly vote on flag-flying, another divisive issue between Catholic nationalists and pro-British Protestants in this British province, appeared likely to be delayed until Tuesday. | | | The Rev. Ian Paisley's Democratic Unionists, a hard line Protestant party, immediately demanded that the 108-member assembly vote to compel Sinn Fein, the Irish Republican Army's political ally, to fly the Union Jack from government ministries on designated days. |
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| | RTÉ News: Northern Ireland Assembly Elections 2003 |
| | The Northern Secretary, Paul Murphy, said the British government's view was that the Good Friday Agreeement was the only way forward. | | | Polling has finished in the Northern Assembly elections. | | | The Taoiseach has said that the British and Irish Governments are determined to finalise outstanding issues in the North following Wednesday's elections. |
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| | Scotsman.com News - Northern Ireland |
| | FORMER Northern Ireland Secretary Paul Murphy today said he was "absolutely satisfied" that there was an IRA spying operation at Stormont. | | | THE family of murdered Belfast father of two, Robert McCartney, met Tony Blair yesterday. | | | PETER Hain, the Northern Ireland Secretary, yesterday rejected an inquiry into a spying scandal at Stormont, which led to the collapse of devolution in the province and the unmasking of a Sinn Fein aide as a British agent. |
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| | ePolitix.com - Northern Ireland - News from London and information on MLAs |
| | The row over the collapsed Stormont 'spying' case has intensified, with Sinn Fein expelling a party member for being a British informer. | | | Tony Blair has said he wants to give the public more information on the 'Stormontgate' spying affair. | | | Ministers in the Northern Ireland Office currently have executive responsibility for matters in the province. |
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| | Guardian Unlimited Politics Special Reports Special report: Northern Ireland |
| | November 22: Tony Blair today conceded there was almost unanimous opposition in Northern Ireland to a bill allowing fugitive paramilitaries to escape jail, but said it was an essential part of the peace process. | | | Adams should resign over spy scandal, urges SDLP | | | November 9: Police investigating reports that he had been abducted from his flat. |
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| | Northern Ireland Legislation |
| | Specific links have also been provided to the full text of the Northern Ireland (Elections) Act 1998, the Northern Ireland Acts 1998 and 2000 and the associated delegated legislation which established the Northern Ireland Assembly. | | | This website is managed by Her Majesty's Stationery Office on behalf of the Government Printer for Northern Ireland. | | | The site contains the full text of Acts of the Northern Ireland Assembly, the Explanatory Notes to the Acts of the Northern Ireland Assembly and Statutory Rules of Northern Ireland. |
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| | The 2003 Northern Ireland Assembly Election Survey |
| | The Assembly elections of 1998 constituted a new beginning for Northern Ireland because, for the first time since 1973, they were about electing an Assembly, and indirectly an Executive, in the changed context of local politicians being empowered to govern important policy jurisdictions (with other functional areas to follow if cross-community consent proved viable). | | | The 2003 ‘second’ election to the Northern Ireland Assembly will make history simply for the fact that the Assembly has remained in existence (even if currently suspended) long enough to justify a second election. | | | In 1998 it is clear that nationalists voted overwhelmingly for the new institutions, while the unionist community was fairly evenly divided, though with a slight plurality voting in favour of the Agreement. |
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| | Northern Ireland Assembly - The NHS Confederation |
| | Prior to the suspension of the Assembly, the Northern Ireland Confederation for the Health and Social Services had established links with the Office of the First Minister and Deputy First Minister and with the Assembly Committee on Health, Social Services and Public Safety. | | | In addition, pending the re-instatement of the Assembly, the influencing agenda includes the Northern Ireland Office Ministers and the Department of Health, Social Services and Public Safety. | | | Northern Ireland > Influencing > Northern Ireland Assembly |
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| | CTV.ca Britain suspends Northern Ireland assembly |
| | The prime ministers of Britain and Ireland say they're "deeply saddened" by the news that Britain has been forced to re-assume responsibility for Northern Ireland. | | | Canada AM: Members of Sein Fein and the Ulster Unionist on the political turmoil in Northern Ireland | | | With the government in limbo, sectarian antagonism is still a force is northern Ireland. |
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| | Northern Ireland Assembly elections delayed |
| | For their part the British army are known to be anxious to free up army units stationed in Northern Ireland for global operations. | | | Floated by the UUP, the demand was quickly taken up by the British and Irish governments and by the United States envoy to Ireland, Richard Haass. | | | The Assembly was established as part of the 1998 Good Friday Agreement, which set up a measure of devolved government for Britain’s oldest colony and established power sharing between the pro-British and Protestant Unionist parties and the Irish nationalist and Catholic parties, including Sinn Fein, the political wing of the IRA. |
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| | The Northern Ireland Assembly - OFFICIAL REPORT (HANSARD) |
| | The Office of the Official Report (Hansard) in the Northern Ireland Assembly is a member of the British-Irish Parliamentary Reporting Association (BIPRA). | | | A report is published for each sitting and lists the names of all the members that speak and what they say, and records all the Assembly's decisions. | | | The Northern Ireland Assembly - OFFICIAL REPORT (HANSARD) |
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| | Northern Ireland Assembly & Executive Websites |
| | Retains responsibility for constitutional and security issues as they relate to Northern Ireland, in particular law and order, policing and criminal justice policy | | | Updated Statutes of Northern Ireland 1921 - 2002 - Primary Legislation of Northern Ireland updated to 31 December 2002 | | | Committee's of the Northern Ireland Assembly which includes: |
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| | Northern Ireland Assembly |
| | It has the power to make laws and take decisions on all the Northern Ireland Departments. | | | The Northern Ireland Assembly is the prime source of authority for all devolved responsibilities. | | | It has 108 members elected from 18 Westminster constituencies. |
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| | The Green Party in Northern Ireland |
| | So far the Northern Ireland Green Party has done well to make a clear and inclusive breakthrough in the last local elections, electing Cllr. | | | In both jurisdictions on the island of Ireland, the process of publicly remembering those who have died in the great world conflicts of the 20th and 21st centuries has been a continued source of political division. | | | Green Party AGM - Count Down to Assembly Elections |
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| | The Irish Troubles |
| | The official site for the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland | | | The elected body established as part of the 1998 Belfast Agreement | | | Comprehensive report on Northern Ireland and the prospects for peace |
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| | GUIDE TO LAW ONLINE: Northern Ireland |
| | Emergency Law Database: Northern Ireland (Queen's University at Belfast, Centre for International and Comparative Human Rights) | | | Governments on the WWW: Great Britain and Northern Ireland (Gunnar Anzinger) | | | Consular Information Sheets / Travel Warnings - United Kingdom and Gibraltar (England, Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland) (U.S. Dept. of State) |
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| | Northern Ireland Assembly elections: Launching a socialist challenge |
| | Jim, who is one of the best known trade unionists in Northern Ireland, has lived in South Belfast almost all his life and has been active in the trade union movement for 20 years. | | | This article first appeared in the Socialist Voice, newspaper of the Socialist Party in Northern Ireland in a special supplement produced for the Northern Ireland Assembly elections in November 2003 | | | Northern Ireland Assembly elections: Launching a socialist challenge |
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| | Northern Ireland Elections |
| | Each constituency elected six members of the Assembly in 1998 and 2003, and one Member of Parliament in 1997, 2001 and 2005. | | | 2005 elections: Northern Ireland's 18 Westminster seats and the 582 seats on Northern Ireland's 26 district councils were up for re-election on 5 May. The Westminster results are reported here; the local council results here; and predictions submitted in the predictions contest can be foundhere. | | | * three of the members elected to the Assembly in 2003 for the UUP subsequently defected to the DUP, so when the Assembly convenes the DUP will have 33 seats and the UUP 24. |
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| | Food Standards Agency - Northern Ireland |
| | The Northern Ireland Executive comprises the Director and 17 staff, plus the Chair of the Advisory Committee for Northern Ireland, (who is also a member of the UK Board). | | | The Northern Ireland Food Advisory Committee acts as independent advisory body to the Food Standards Agency. | | | Audits of district councils' food law enforcement services are part of the Food Standards Agency's arrangements to improve consumer protection and confidence in relation to food. |
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| | BBC NEWS Northern Ireland DUP rules out 'speedy resolution' |
| | If this were to happen, he said, the party would then consult with the wider nationalist and republican community. | | | Intensive negotiations involving the British and Irish Governments and the political parties are set to take place next month in an attempt to restore devolution. | | | The political institutions in the province were suspended in October 2002 amid allegations of IRA intelligence gathering at the Northern Ireland Office. |
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| | AM - Northern Ireland Assembly facing suspension |
| | Among those who have been charged is Denis Donaldson, Sinn Fein's senior administrative office at the Assembly. | | | LINDA MOTTRAM: The Northern Ireland First Minister says it's worse than Watergate, a spy scandal sourced it appears to the IRA and enmeshing its political wing, Sinn Fein, which now seems certain to see the suspension of the Northern Ireland Assembly, putting the peace process in serious jeopardy. | | | Elections were due next year for the devolved Assembly at which the extremes of both sides of the religious divide were likely to squeeze out the moderates. |
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| | The official government site which includes as new section, a brief summary of the assembly, a listing of membership and biographies of assembly members. |
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